For students who commenced from 2014: ADS701 for students enrolled in courses A511, A611 or A727

Incompatible with:

AID612, AID712

Contact hours:

Learning experiences are via CloudDeakin.

Content

This unit will explore issues of food security and sustainable rural livelihoods, encompassing relevant aspects of sustainable development, environmental and resource management and conservation, and agricultural/rural production systems. Linkages between social, environmental and economic influences on development will be explored, alongside critical review of debates on population, resource scarcity, poverty, and equality. Theoretical debate will be used to inform an analysis of policy and programme responses. Contemporary case studies from Africa, Asia, and Central America will be used to highlight regional and national issues and hotspots, and assess both immediate responses and longer term development intervention options.

Proposed topics covered include:

Environment and development,

Sustainability and the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework,

Population,

Natural Resources,

Carrying capacity (the economists versus the environmentalists),

Agriculture,

Forestry and rural production systems,

Food Security,

HIV/AIDS,

Risk and coping mechanisms,

The role of technology.

Assessment

Two assignments, of not more than 5000 words:

Short answer topics 40%

Essay on a specified topic 60%

Unit Fee Information

All Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP), fee paying undergraduate and pre-2016 commencing students

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2016 commencing International and full fee paying postgraduate domestic students

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